[22] Presentation drawing for alternative Design No 6 for a wider H-plan

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Southwark for the Governors of Dulwich College, 1811-1813 (108)
    - Three further alternative designs, May 1811 (6)

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Reference number

SM 65/4/42

Purpose

[22] Presentation drawing for alternative Design N^o 6 for a wider H-plan

Aspect

Ground plan

Scale

bar scale of 1/17 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, (pencil) skylight, porch (twice), some dimensions given

Signed and dated

datable to May 1811

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, sepia and rose pink washes, pricked for transfer, within a nine-ruled pen and sepia and black wash border on laid paper (457 x 581)

Hand

John Buxton (pupil 1809-1814) or Charles Tyrrell (1795-1832, pupil 1811-1816) (only two pupils continually recorded drawing plans in the Day Book entries for May) with pencil additions by Soane

Watermark

A Stace 1798, fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, AS

Notes

The College authorities rejected Soane's initial five designs because of lack of funds. This sixth design is an 'H' plan design, wider than the 'H' plan of SM 65/4/9 and SM 65/4/10, with the Gallery in the centre connecting the north and south ranges. The Mausoleum is now on the east side of the Gallery and the entrance porch on the west side.

Soane's pencil revisions relocate the Gallery to the west. This rough design adds a staircase in the central projecting entrance porch, indicating a two-storey range.

The south range on the plans within this sub-scheme seems to be part of a phased building development. The College authorities had rejected the quadrangular plan and only wanted a single new range to be built. However the outline of a new range to the south continued to be drawn. Perhaps retaining the possibility of future expansion.

Literature

G. Waterfield, Soane and after: the architecture of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1987, pp. 30; F. Nevola, Soane's favourite subject: the story of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2000, pp. 35 & 178

Level

Drawing

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